Utopia in Absentia: Staging Possibilities in Kirk Lynn’s WAR

Authors

Margaret F. Savilonis, University of New HavenFollow

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Document Type

Book Chapter

Publication Date

2008

Subject: LCSH

Drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism, Drama, Metatheater

Disciplines

English Language and Literature | Other Theatre and Performance Studies

Abstract

“Margaret Savilonis’ essay on Kirk Lynn’s WAR provides a final and recent example of this tension between fulfilling a progressive politics and recognizing how postmodern attitudes toward truth refuse the very concept of progress, while yet committing to the idea that the solution to this dilemma resides, once again, in local and individual responses to larger social issues…”-- p. 17

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Repository Citation

Savilonis, Margaret F. “Utopia in absentia: Staging Possibilities in Kirk Lynn’s WAR.” In Jernigan, D. K. (2008). Drama and the postmodern: Assessing the limits of metatheatre. Amherst, N.Y: Cambria Press, 327-349.

Publisher Citation

Savilonis, Margaret F. “Utopia in absentia: Staging Possibilities in Kirk Lynn’s WAR.” In Jernigan, D. K. (2008). Drama and the postmodern: Assessing the limits of metatheatre. Amherst, N.Y: Cambria Press, 327-349.